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ff Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium
version 01.1 |
November 2007
FONT & DESIGNER
INFORMATION
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about ff eureka mono turk cond
medium
about
peter bil'ak
The original drawings for ff Eureka date from 1995 when it was designed
for the bilingual text of “Transparency”. The typeface works especially
well for languages with accented characters. Many contemporary western
typefaces have large x-heights which leave little room to accommodate
accents, the result is that they are small and cramped. However, in many
languages the accents are an integral part of the alphabet and shouldn’t
be reduced in size and importance. In order to maintain a proper rhythm
in the text, Bilak adjusted the proportions of the typeface. The height of
the ascenders and descenders is 1.7 times the x-height. This relatively
small x-height leaves room for longer descenders and ascenders which in
turn better accommodate accents and punctuation, it also gives the
typeface its distinctive character. The large serifs visually balance the
larger accents. Eureka’s proportions result in an economic typeface and
allow the letters to be spaced more loosely. This is important for, as Bilak
says: “it is the white space that we unconsciously read, not the actual
letterforms. Looser spacing helps to avoid the typographic noise inside a
text, and retains the individuality of the letters.” ff Eureka Mono extends
the Eureka family by a monospaced version.
Peter Bilak was born in Czechoslovakia and now works in The
Netherlands, in the field of graphic and type design. In 1999 he started
his type foundry Typotheque. In 2000, he co-founded DOT DOT DOT
magazine. He teaches typography part-time at the postgraduate course
Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 2004,
together with a dancer Lukas Timulak, he directed a modern dance piece
inspired by typography.
ff Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium
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TYPE SPECIMENS
ff Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium
Shag pile i13
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMm
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
FF Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium 14/16 pt
Almanya’nın kuzey batı bolumu AtlantikOkyanusu etkisinde
kaldığından, yılın her donemi yağmurludur. Kış ayları bu
bolgede genel olarak ılımlı, yaz ayları ise serin gecer.
FF Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium 12/14 pt
Almanya’nın kuzey batı bolumu AtlantikOkyanusu etkisinde
kaldığından, yılın her donemi yağmurludur. Kış ayları bu bolgede
genel olarak ılımlı, yaz ayları ise serin gecer. Doğu Almanya
FF Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium 10/12 pt
Almanya’nın kuzey batı bolumu
AtlantikOkyanusu etkisinde
kaldığından, yılın her donemi
yağmurludur. Kış ayları bu bolgede
genel olarak ılımlı, yaz ayları ise
serin gecer. Doğu Almanya bolgesinde
iklim genel olarak kara iklimi
karakterindedir. Bu bolgede kış ayları
FF Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium 8/10 pt
Almanya’nın kuzey batı bolumu
AtlantikOkyanusu etkisinde
kaldığından, yılın her donemi
yağmurludur. Kış ayları bu
ff Eureka Mono Turk Cond Medium
bolgede genel olarak ılımlı,
yaz ayları ise serin gecer.
Doğu Almanya bolgesinde iklim
genel olarak kara iklimi
karakterindedir. Bu bolgede kış
ayları uzun ve sert gecer. Yaz
ayları ise sıcaktır. Periyodik
bir şekilde kurak gecen sureler